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‘Scream’ Is a Massive Box Office Hit; Slashes Into a $35M+ 4-Day Opening!

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Horror is king once again with Scream (spoiler-free review) slaying Spider-Man: No Way Home and taking the top spot at this holiday weekend’s box office!

Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group are celebrating a monster hit with the franchise revival this time directed by Radio Silence, taking the reigns from horror master Wes Craven.

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Early numbers are in and Scream is a smash-hit with the fifth entry earning an estimated $30.5M over the weekend and $35M+ over the 4-day holiday here in the States.

These numbers are massive in comparison to Scream 4, which opened back in 2011 to only $18.6M and ended its domestic run with only $38M. It never crossed the $100M mark worldwide and shut the door on sequels for over a decade. The new Scream will surpass its predecessor this coming week and could top $100M here in the States alone.

Scream also added another $18M internationally for a worldwide estimate of $53M+.

Not accounting for inflation, it’s in the realm of possibility that the 2022 Scream could match or even surpass that of Wes Craven’s 1996 horror masterpiece. How ’bout that?!

It’s certain that Ghostface is back in a big way and all but guaranteed that a sixth Scream will be in the works before year’s end. You heard it here first.

As for the fifth Scream “You’re gonna love this one. It’s a scream, baby!” Below, you can slice and dice through the blockbuster hit with our own Halloweenies, who just dropped a two-episode deep dive into the sequel.

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Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Adds “Chucky” Actor Teo Briones and More to Lead Cast

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Chucky Actor Teo Briones
Pictured: Teo Briones in "Chucky" Season Two

The Final Destination franchise is returning to life with Final Destination: Bloodlines. With filming now underway, THR reports that three actors have joined the lead cast, including “Chucky” actor Teo Briones.

Brec Bassinger (“Stargirl”) and Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game) join Teo Briones, who played Junior Wheeler in season two of “Chucky,” as the leads in the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the fresh installment that also includes Richard Harmon (“The 100”, Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor) among the cast.

Production is now underway in Vancouver.

What can we expect from the upcoming Final Destination 6? Speaking with Collider, franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick offered up an intriguing (and mysterious) tease last year.

“This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful,” Reddick teased.

Reddick continued, “It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines is written by Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.

Producers on the new movie for New Line Cinema also include Dianne McGunigle (Cop Car) as well as Final Destination producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

This will be the sixth installment in the hit franchise, and the first in over ten years. Each film centers on “Death” hunting down young friends who survive a mass casualty event.

The latest entry is expected in 2025, coinciding with the original film’s 25th anniversary.

 

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